أَلْفَيْنَا — Quran 2:170:12 · root ل ف و

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَلْفَيْنَا Quranic text
Simple: أَلْفَيْنَا
Without tashkeel: ألفينا
Normalised (searchable): الفينا

Position

Computed

Surah: 2 · The Cow
Verse: 2:170
Word in verse: 12
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:170:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: we found
Transliteration: alfaynā

Root: ل ف وl-f-w
Lemma: أَلْفَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 4

Sub-word segments

أَلْفَيْstem · V · ل ف و
نَاsuffix · PRON

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cow 2:170Quranic text

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّبِعُوا۟مَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ قَالُوا۟بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ مَآ أَلْفَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ ءَابَآءَنَآ أَوَلَوْ كَانَ ءَابَآؤُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ شَيْـًٔا وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:170 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

And when it is said to them, “Follow what God has revealed,” they say, “We will follow what we found our ancestors following.” Even if their ancestors understood nothing, and were not guided

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And when it is said unto them: Follow that which Allah hath revealed, they say: We follow that wherein we found our fathers. What! Even though their fathers were wholly unintelligent and had no guidance

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And when it is said to them, "Follow ye that which God hath sent down;" they say, "Nay, we follow the usages which we found with our fathers." What! though their fathers were utterly ignorant and devoid of guidance

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

When it is said to them, 'Follow what God has revealed,' they say, 'Nay, we will follow what we found our fathers agreed upon.' What! and though their fathers had no sense at all or guidance

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ل ف و · 3 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل ف و occurs 3 times across 3 distinct forms.

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